Re: Poker Strategies/Hand Analysis Discussion. (No low quality generic posts)
⭐ Merited by memehunter (1)
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Oh, I wouldn't have realized the level up if you didn't mention it. Thanks for that!! Guess I have to contact my campaign manager so I can earn a bit more.
About the hands, you are totally right. Any hand is in danger to lose, always. Even having AK it's always easy to forget that. It always feels like an automatic double up when you get those hands dealt, that's why a loss with a dirty reality check always hurts the most, especially if you played everything right and some other guy just got super lucky overplaying a marginal/bad hand. It is what it is sometimes.
Yes the feeling as if it is an automatic double up isn't all that wrong when you can isolate one opponent and you have a pretty good read on that opponent.
Now when is it possible in any of the tournaments here (lol) to isolate one opponent and have a pretty good read on them? It's hardly possible because you have AK, you know you are 99% of the time the strongest hand on the table along with pockets that others may hold against you, and yet no matter you do, raise or all in, early tournament or late tournament, you see these all in calls coming. Your AK becomes much weaker against several callers.
The "chessy" element gets lost with countless of bingo players. What "strategy" do you want to play against players who call your AK reraise all in in the third hand of the tournament with 33 and 24?
lol, I really have to laugh. Winning these rounds with 30 people is pure luck because even if you make the correct read and call and you go all in like 8 times because you have to and you are a 70-30 favorite each time, losing one or two of those all ins can make you lose the tournament. You would pretty much have to win the right all ins and you would have to win them almost all the time. Calling against 30% two times already puts you under 50% win rate (0.7*0.7).
It's different though once you made it to these final tables with less people. Good thing is I am qualified for the SWC one as I won the first tournament.
Please get your Betpanda account situation sorted out. Would be nice to know you are going to join us.